The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …

The major objective of this paper is to discuss the development of rural labor markets in China during the past two …

Although health is an important factor in economic development, millions of China's rural residents have no medical … coverage. Nearly 10 percent of those that were sick in rural China consciously did not seek medical care, mostly because of … deteriorating situation, a new cooperative medical system (NCMS) was initialized in rural China in 2003 by the government. However …

Great changes have taken place in China’s agricultural and food markets in the past several decades. However, the … impact of the transformation brought by modern supply chains on the welfare of farmers in China is unclear. This paper … attempts to understand whether or not the recent changes in China’s food economy have contributed to an improvement in the …

The overall goal of the paper is to understand the progress of the implementation of China’s New Cooperative Medical …

surveys-one a cross-section survey, the other two panel surveys. All come from China, a country where providers have until … eligibility for health insurance are used as instruments. The results suggest that during the 1990s China's government and labor … the results, it appears that China's new health insurance schemes (private schemes, including coverage of schoolchildren …

. The authors explore these issues in China. In addition to providing new evidence on the general impact of health shocks …